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Type: Type: Full-Time Employment, Salary, Exempt | Location: Onsite, Plant City, FL
Responsibilities
- Direct daily shipping/receiving activities. Schedule staff to safely, accurately, and effectively perform all work per SOP’s while minimizing overtime. Ensure all needed equipment and supplies are available.
- Hire, onboard, perform periodic evaluations, and manage disciplinary/corrective actions.
- Coordinate product/packaging deliveries and order shipping appointments with Logistics, Commodity Management, Sales, Production, and Materials teams and carriers.
- Oversee the accurate receiving of domestic and imported fruit from local growers, suppliers, and transfers. Report damages or discrepancies when necessary.
- Prepare, stage, and ship all orders and transfers timely in accordance with SOP’s and meeting customer requirements.
- Ensures all clerical functions are performed properly, including creating or processing shipping documents and communicating status changes or issues as needed.
- Maintain accurate inventory, manage product organization, conduct daily cycle counts, and alert when issues arise (discrepancies, excessive age, improper product rotation, poor quality, etc.).
- Constantly monitor productivity and efficiency of each defined KPI and communicate issues as well as offering improvements as needed. Provides feedback and corrective action in financial meetings.
- Ensure operations are performed within all regulatory guidelines for personnel safety, food safety, organic program regulations, and customer required compliance.
- Ensure all maintenance and sanitation needs are performed timely.
- Supports team members to maintain good morale.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Must be passionate about produce; four to five years’ experience preferred.
- General understanding of Food Safety programs such as good practices related to GAP’s, GMP’s, HACCP, etc., preferred.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Team player who possesses a sense of priority and works well alongside other departments.
- Well organized with an excellent attention to detail.
- Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
- Knowledge or capacity to learn the Famous software to perform all activities related to product management.
- Must be willing to work in a refrigerated warehouse environment (34 °F – 40 °F).
- Required to stand for long periods of time.
- Must be able to lift 20 lbs – 30 lbs as needed.
- May engage in frequent bending, pulling, pushing, squatting to complete assigned tasks.
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